During the first semester of 2018, SICAR cat professionals have assisted a total of 29 trafficking victims who are at the same time international protection applicants: 24 women and 5 minors, including 3 family units. Trafficking victim family units are single-parent families composed of women and their dependent minor children who are in Spanish territory.

This week, Enrique Anarte from Deutsche Welle (DW), the Germany’s international broadcaster, spoke with Rosa Cendón, our advocacy coordinator, about how the current situation in Venezuela feeds the trafficking of women to Barcelona. As Rosa explained, ‘the human trafficking rings take advantage of these cases of vulnerability’. You can read the article in: http://p.dw.com/p/2tQR6

The two entities are looking to focus attention on the barriers, incomprehension, lack of awareness and rumours which deprive people of a specific place to live and coexist, regardless of their origins or their social condition.